Meet Julia Satterthwaite: Future Engineer

JULIA SATTERTHWAITE, student at Roy High School in Weber School District

CTE Pathway: Julia is currently enrolled in the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Pre-Engineering Program. She has participated in this pathway of pre-engineering studies for the past four years, taking six of the seven courses offered.

Senior Project: Julia’s senior project involved developing a solution to the air bag deployment stability for Autoliv. Her senior project team placed 1st in the competition, conducted by Autoliv and their engineering staff. Julia is currently the team leader of the district’s VEX Robotics Team. The team will be competing to repeat as a qualifier in the World VEX Robotic competitions to be held in Anaheim, California this spring.

Study Habits: Julia is an excellent student and earned a composite score of 25 on the ACT. While maintaining a 3.67 GPA, Julia works part-time for Farmers Insurance Agency, participates in a full-year internship with Fresenius Medical Care in Ogden, takes college concurrent enrollment courses, and has a full slate of Advanced Placement classes—English Literature, Calculus, U.S. History and English Composition. Julia applied and was a finalist at the Roy High School Science Sterling Scholar program.

Soft Skills: “Julia’s most notable features are her endless energy and positive attitude, about all things. She is personable, dynamic, and ‘she will get in your face,’ and that is always fun!” says Glenn Prisk, CTE Coordinator over the Project Lead the Way Program.

Future: Julia is committed to her career plan of achieving an engineering degree at a university in Utah.

Testimonial:“I look at many things through an inquisitive eye now that I have had science and engineering in my life. That is to say, I ponder about the energy involved in traveling and the resistance that cars present to their movement as a result of their design; I figure math problems and fuel costs now that I pay a bigger portion of my way. I just look at things through an analytical eyepiece. I owe that to my involvement in school and specifically to physics and engineering. Since becoming involved in PLTW I have had to become more focused about my studies. Before, school was just school, random classes were being taken for credit. Now, with my [Project Lead the Way] Pathway involved and the goal to achieve an engineering degree, I feel that I am really focused on the task at hand! I enjoy the competition in classes where I am a minority by gender. I have a reason to go to school and a goal to achieve as I am now looking forward to graduation. I am truly excited about my future and all the things that are in front of me.”